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FRANK A. MAGEE, OF CHELSEA, ASSIGNOR TO THE MAGEE FURNACE COMPANY, OFBOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

HEATING-STOVE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 353,033, dated November23, 1886.

Application filed March 6, 1886. Serial No. 194,200.

To-aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, FRANK A. MAGEE, of Chelsea, in the county of Suffolkand-State of Massachusetts, a citizen of the United States,

have invented a new and useful Improvement in Heating-Stoves, of whichthe following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference beinghad to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification,in explaining its nature.

The invention belongs to that class of stoves or furnaces used forheating; and 'it relates to the arrangement within thecombustion-chainber of the stove or furnace of a deflecting plate,surface, or partition to cause the products of combustion to be thrownforward toward the front of the stove or furnace and upward into theupper section thereof, for the purpose of increasing its heatingcapacity.

. In the drawings accompanying this specification I have represented theinvention as applied both to magazine or base-burning stoves and tostoves and furnaces which do not have the magazine. In the magazinestoveshown the deflecting surface or partition ison either side of themagazine, arranged between its back and sides and the back and sideplates of the stove to project outward and upward from said plates intothe combustion-chamber, to provide or form a deflecting or guidingsurface for directing the products of combustion to the front and upperparts of the chamber.

The invention further relates to the arrangement ofthe down-fines orexit-fines ofthe stove in relation to the deflecting ,plate or surfaceand the top of the combustion-chamber, whereby the products ofcombustion are caused to pass overthe deflecting plate or surface to theIn the drawingsihe stove is represented as provided with the three-fluesystem; but I recognize the-fact thatsthis improvement can be used toadvantage, combined with the sheetflue system, with two fines, or, infact, with any of the systems now in use.

The invention further relates to an air-heating chamber extending fromeach side of the stove above the deflecting-plate, and connected back ofthe magazine; or it may be in the form of separate or detached chambers,which chaminafter referred to. view of the plates for forming one formof air- (No model.)

ber or chambers are connected with the outer air by holes or aperturesin the side plates.

The invention also provides for a passage or extension of theair-heating chamber or chambers to one or more openings in the backplate ofthe stove, which, if desired, may open directly into a pipe forconveying heated air from-the heating-chamber to another apartment'orinto an intermediate drum.

It further relates to various details of construction, all of which willhereinafter be fully described.

Referring to the drawings, Figure 1 is a view of the stove in frontelevation. Fig. 2 is a vertical central section thereof from the inside-elevation. Fig. 4 is a vertical central section of the stove fromside to side. Fig. 5 is a horizontal section upon the line x m of Fig.2. Fig. 6 is a view in perspective showing a part of the side and backplates of the stove broken out to expose the arrangement of plates,flues, and passages, and to illustrate the interior construction. Figs.7 and 8 are views of the upper part of the stove in vertical section, toillustrate slight modifications here- Fig. 9 is a perspective heatingchamber and the deflecting-partition in one casting. Figs. 10, 11, and12 illustrate the application of the invention to stoves unprovided withmagazine. Figs. 13 and 14. illustrate modified forms of construction.Fig. 15 is a longitudinal vertical section through the down and up takefines of the stove. Fig. lb is a view in horizontal section of the baseY front and back. Fig. 3 is a view of the stove below the ash-pit, toshow the relation of the base-fines to each other.

In the drawings, Ais the ash-pit; a, the entrance thereto. B is thegrate, C the fire-pot, and D the combustion-chamber. There is arrangedto extend upward from the plate a, forming the ash-pit bottom, avertical flueplate, a, which extends across the, stove from side to sideand upto the point 0, and the .plate 0 extends upward, and insubstantial continuation of the plate 0, from the point 0' to the topring, K, of the stove. v These plates 0 c are lined upon that portion oftheir surface forming apart of the fire-pot by fire.

brick The plate c has the opening 0, (shown in drawings closed by damper0 which connects the combustionchamber D with the direct escape port orpassage 0 This opening a is closed or controlled by the damper c, whichis attached to the rod 0, extending throughout the stove, and having ahandle, 0", by which it is turned.

E is the magazine, and it has the front wall,

6, the rear wall, e", and the side walls, 6 e.

There is arranged on each side of the magazine, extending from therearplate, 0", and from the side plates, E E of the stove, respectively,the partition F F. This partition extends upward and outward from theback plate, 0', and inward into the combustion-chan1- ber, its inneredges extending to the side walls, 6 e", of the magazine, and itextends, preferably, into the combustion-chamber slightly beyond thefront wall, 6, of the magazine; The portion F of the partition is uponone side of the magazine andthe portion F upon the other side, and theseparts are connectedby the sectionf back of the magazine, or between therear wall of the magazine and the plate a, which forms the upper wall orsurface to this part of the combustion-chamber. The shape of thepartition is such that it causes the products of combustion impingingagainst its under surface to be thrown outward toward the front of thechamber.

The combustion'chamber D extends above the partition at the front of thestove in front of the wall 6 of the magazine, or between it and thenpper'part,E ,of the front of the stove. From this upper front sectionof the combustion-chamber there extends backward on either side of themagazine, between its side walls 0 e and the top plate, E, of the stove,the branches or sections (1 (Z of the combustionchamber, (see Fig. 4;)and at their rear ends they connect with or open into the corner fines,G G,which are formed by the plates 0 c", the back plates, E E, the sideplates, E E", and the partition-plates h h. These corner flnes G Gextend downward, and connect at their lower ends with the horizontalbase-fines H H,which extend forward in the sides of the base-section,andcome together or unite at the front thereof, and open into the centralhorizontal return-flue, H, which in turn opens into or connects with thecentral uptake passage or fine H",which opens into the directescapepassage 0 The base-fines are formed by the partition-plates h h",(see Fig. 4,) which are horizontal continnations of the partition-platesh h, the flnes H being between the fine-plates h and the side wall E ofthe base,and the line H being between the fine-plate h and the side wallE of the base. The flue H is between these flue-plates 71. h, and theflue-plates do not extend to the front of the base, but end at the pointh.

The partition or deflecting plates F F are also utilized to form theunder walls or plates of the air-heating chamber F, the sides and top ofwhich are formed by the plates F, ex-

tending, respectively, from each side of the walls E and E toward theside walls e e of the magazine. These plates F are preferably castintegral with a connecting portion, f, which extends about the back ofthe magazine, and forms the top wall of the section of the air-heatingchamber behind the magazine,and also the front wall thereof, whichextends downward and connects the two parts or divisions of thedeflecting plate together. I prefer in construction to make the twoplates F F and platef, providing the deflecting surface and partition,and the side and top wall or plates F in one casting, as shown in Fig.9. If the chamber F" has, in addition to the side openings, f an openingat the back of the stove, then I extend upward from the platef the platef which extends to and connects with the top plate, 12*, of the stove atf. This forms, in connection with the back plate, a, anupwardly-extending passage, f, to the outlet f. This heating-chamber maynot be connected by the section behind the magazine, if not desired, inwhich case there would be in substance two separate heating-chambers, F,one at each side of the magazine, instead of one formed of the twounited by the communicating section or passage above described.

The air-heating chamber may be connected by the passage f 7 with a drum,f", (see Fig. 7,) which in turn is adaptedto be connected bya pipe, f,with any other apartment; or the pipe f" may extend directly from theopening f.

The ash-pan M is represented as provided with the flanges m m, whichsupport anti-friction rolls m and these are in turn supported in therecesses m at the lower edge of the inclined plate m, in which they areadapted to run, and so that the under surface of the ashpan shall notrest upon the bottom plate of the ash-pit. This form of constructionenables the ash-pan to be withdrawn and replaced with comparativelylittle effort. The rolls may of course be secured to the plate oninstead of to the pan.

It will be seen that by arranging deflectingsurfaces or a partialpartition about the back and sides of the magazine the products ofcombustion are caused to be moved outward and upward against the frontof the stove to the upper part or top thereof, and that by thearrangement of corner fines and the extension of the combustion-chamberbackward upon either side of the magazine and in the upper part of I OCvthe stove a very large radiating -surface of 7 great power is provided,which has not heretofore been so directly utilized, and that thisconstruction of the combustion-chamber in magazine-stoves, taken inconnection with the arrangement of the flues herein specified, providesthe stove with great heating capacity;

- also, that by forming the heating-chamber F as herein specified theradiating-surface of the stove is still further increased.

The arrangement of the partial partition and deflectingsnrface in thecombustion-chamber of the magazine-stove so that the products ofcombustion are compelled to pass to the top of the stove before theydescend I consider to be of very great advantage; and I would herestatethat I do not confine myself to the special means herein describedfor accomplishing this object.

In use the magazine is supplied with coal and the fire treated as inordinary magazinestoves, and after the fire has been sufficientlykindled the'damper c is closed, so that the products of combustion areforced by the deflecting-plate or partial partition to pass to the frontand upper sections of the chamber before taking their downward course bythe corner flues to the base.

Of course it is notnecessary that the two sections of the air-heatingchamber be united. They may be separate or detached from each other, ifdesired; and I have represented in Fig. 13 a form of casting forproviding the deflecting-surface and these detached heatingchambers whenthis form of the invention is used.

I have shown in Fig. 14 another form of construction applicable toeither the connected or detached heating-chambers; and it consists inmaking the magazines in three sectionsnamely, the upper section, 1, theintermediate section, 2, which is cast integral with thedeflecting-plate and partition-plates which form the heating-chamber,and the lower section, 8. Of course these three parts are secured toeach other by bolting, or in any desirable way. I would say,also, thatthe two sections of the heating-chamber, instead of being connected witheach other and the.escape-opening at-the back by a cross-extension,maybe connected by separate passages with the upper escape-opening at theback. In Figs. 10, 11, and 12 I have illustrated the application of theinvention to stoves and furnaces unprovided with magazines. In this casethe deflecting-partition is shaped to extend entirely across thecombustion-chamber, and the heating-chamber pref- ,erably is alsoarranged to extend across the same above the deflecting-plate.

The heating-chamber not only serves to increase the heating capacity ofthe stove, but also to protect the deflecting-partition from the actionof the fire by keeping its upper surface exposed to the action ofcoolair from without the stove. l

I would also remark that the invention, so far as the use of thedeflecting-plate or partition of the heatingohambr is concerned, isequally applicable to stoves having a different arrangement of fluesfrom those herein described, for it can be used equally well with whatis known in the trade as a sheet-flue stove,or to a two-flue stove,or,in fact, to stoves having any of the flue systems now in use.

Having thus fully described my invention, I claim and desire to secureby Letters Patent of the United States 1. The combination, in a heatingstove or furnace, of a magazine,a partition or deflecting plate orplates arranged upon eachside-of the magazine, as described, andextending inward from the rear and side walls of the coma partialpartition or deflecting plate or plates arranged in thecombustion-chamber between the magazine and side of the stove, wherebythe combustion-chamber is provided with a front section, d,- and twoside sections, d d, and the down-fines G G, substantially as described.

3. The combination, in a heating stove or furnace, of the magazine-wall,the plates F, F, F and f, arranged in relation to each other and theside and rear plates of the stove to form the horizontally-extendingair-heating chamber F substantially as described.

4. The combination, in a heating stove or furnace, of a magazine, acombustion-chamber, and an air-heating chamber arranged between thesides of the magazine between it and the side plates of the stove, whichchambers 9 are connected with each other, the side plates of the stovehaving openings f to said airheating chambers and the rear outlet, 1,sub stantially as described.

5. The combination, in a heating stove or furnace, of a magazine, acombustion-chamber, an air-heating chamber arranged between the sideplates of the stove, as specified, the said side plates having openingsf to the chamber, the rear outlet, f, and a heat-conducting drum andpipe, f f substantially as described.

6. The combination, in a heating stove or furnace, of a magazine, thepartition or deflect ing plate or plates, arranged in relation to themagazine as specified, the combustion-chamber D, having the uppersection, d, and the side sections, d d", thedown-flues G G, baseflues HH H", and up-flue H substantially as described.

7. The combination, ina heating-stove, of a combustion-chamber, with aplate or plates extending across the same from the side plates of thestove to form the upper sections, d d, to the combustion-chamber, andthe down-fl'ues G G, substantially as described.

8. In a heating stove or furnace, the combination of the fire-pot, acombustion-chamber, a deflecting plate or partition arranged to extendinto the combustion-chamber from the back plate or wallv thereof, and anairheating chamber or chambers arranged 'to extend from the sides of thestove above the deflecting plate or partition and opening to the outerair, and opening or outlet at the back of the stove, all substantiallyas described.

In presence of- FRANK A. MAGEE.

F. F. RAYMOND, 2d, J. M. DOLAN.

